I Talked to Cybersecurity Experts After These LinkedIn Scams Almost Fooled Me – CNET

Getty Images/CNET No matter where you hang out online, social media is riddled with scammers looking for targets to swindle or con you out of your cash.  But on LinkedIn, it can be especially tricky to weed out wrongdoers because they can be disguised as career opportunities.  I’ve had more than a few fake job recruiters contact me — some through LinkedIn, and some, I suspect, by finding me on LinkedIn and then reaching out to me over email. These days, scammers are using AI to write convincing and highly detailed business propositions. Sometimes, they’re very persuasive. But you can keep yourself safer if you look for the red flags. My encounter with scammers on LinkedIn  I recently had a “job recruiter” contact me, asking if I’d be interested in working on an aerospace writing project. That was a little suspicious as I have no experience writing about aerospace. Secondly, the job recruiter had three followers. Surely a recruiter, even if it was her first day on the job, would have a little more of a presence on LinkedIn. But if you don’t know what to look for, you might get fooled.   My next experience was when a “book
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